Thirimachos Bourlai is an associate professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Engineering at WVU. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the WVU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, the Department of Forensic and Investigative Science, and the Department of Chemical Engineering (Biomedical Engineering). He is also the founder (2010) and director of the Multi-Spectral Imagery Lab.
After earning his Ph.D. in face recognition and completing a post-doctoral appointment at the University of Surrey (U.K.), Bourlai completed a second post-doc in a joint project between Methodist Hospital and the University of Houston, in the fields of thermal imaging and human-based computational physiology. He joined the staff at WVU in 2009 serving as a visiting professor and later as a research assistant professor in the Lane Department until August 2017.Part I - Mobile-based Privacy & Security.- Shared Images and Camera Fingerprinting May Lead to Privacy Issues.- Presentation Attacks in Mobile and Continuous Behavioral Biometric Systems.- Personalized Data Minimization Assurance using Bluetooth Low Energy.- Part II - Mobile-based Biometric Technologies.- On Designing a Forensic Toolkit for Rapid Detection of Factors that Impact Face Recognition Performance when Processing Large Scale Face Datasets.- Classification of Soft Biometric Traits when Matching Near-Infrared Long-range Face Images against their Visible Counterparts.- Quality and Match Performance Analysis of Band-Filtered Visible RGB Images.- Unconstrained Face Recognition using Cell Phone Devices: Faces in the Wild.- Face Detection in MWIR Spectrum.- Part III - Mobile-based Active Authentication.- Mobile Active Authentication based on Multiple Biometric and Behavioral Patterns.- Quickest Multiple User Active Authentication.- Iris Recognition on Mobile: Real-Time Feature Extraction and Matching in the Wild.- A Protocol for Decentralized Biometric-based Self-Sovereign Identity Ecosystem.- Towards Wider Adoption of Continuous Authentication on Mobile Devices.